4.0 Managing Passwords

An important part of mitigating risks and reducing complexities is managing user passwords. SAP adds many complexities to password management because each user account in each system and child system has a password associated with it. The extension for SAP environments contains two solutions for managing user passwords:

The SAP Identity Manager driver automatically assigns passwords to users when they are provisioned in to the SAP systems and child systems.

You can allow users to manage their own passwords.

The following sections contain the details required to create these solutions in your SAP environment.